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Historic rugby club saved by fundraiser looks to the future
A HISTORIC Croydon rugby club has said its successful emergency fundraiser to secure the club’s future is “only just the beginning”, as it now faces fresh challenges to upgrade its ground and improve access to the sport. Streatham and Croydon RFC...
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Mayor admits London will miss net zero 2030 target
THE Mayor of London has called for more devolution over energy policy after admitting that the capital will not be net zero carbon by 2030. Sir Sadiq Khan said his policies - which include the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and electrifying the bus...
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Sir Stelios flies in to help out at food bank
EASYJET founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has donated 550,000 tins of soup to Lambeth and Croydon Foodbank. The foodbank is run by The Trussell Trust - and Sir Stelios has donated support to more than 80 food banks in their community. The Trussell...
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London Underground warns passengers about retrieving their dropped phones
THE number of phones and other personal items being dropped onto London Underground tracks has doubled in two years, Transport for London (TfL) has revealed. In 2025, TfL recorded 438 incidents, which is more than double the 197 reports in 2023 and a...
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Perry vows to sort out council debt
CROYDON Mayor Jason Perry has set out what residents can expect after he kept his job in the 2026 Croydon mayoral elections. He said people can expect the borough’s finances to be “fully stabilised” by the end of his second term. Perry narrowly...
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THE BIG VOTE
ALL 32 London boroughs will vote on May 7 to elect new councillors for town halls across the capital. However, residents in five of those boroughs will also vote to elect an executive mayor to lead their council. Since 2022, Croydon has been one of...
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Tenants feel ‘ignored and neglected’
A SPOKESPERSON for Croydon Council said: “We are listening to residents’ feedback and taking action to improve their experiences with our housing services. “Improvement plans are in place across our housing services, with clear tracking and oversight...
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SIX-YEAR-OLD SAVED MUM’S LIFE
“BECAUSE I really love my mum, I made sure I knew how to call 999.” - were the brave words of six-year-old Pearl, who dialled 999 when her mother collapsed at their Croydon home last summer. Carole, 36, had suffered a seizure and lost consciousness...
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‘I don’t feel safe in my own home’
A 90-YEAR-OLD Croydon resident says she no longer feels safe in the council-run sheltered accommodation block she has called home for a quarter of a century. Jean Wayman says that repeated incidents of defecation, spitting and other antisocial...
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Council finances under pressure
CROYDON Council will have to revise its annual budget for the coming year because it faces a potential £10million refund bill for unlawful traffic fines. A landmark court ruling found six of the authority’s Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes (LTNs)...
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Fly-tipping capital of England...
WELCOME to England’s fly-tipping capital - where 50,000 incidents were reported last year. Residents in Croydon say many of the illegal dumps re-appear within 24 hours of bring removed. As a result, the streets are littered with mattresses, fridges...
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TOWN CENTRE REIMAGINED
CROYDON residents have been given a fresh look at how the town centre could change amid ongoing regeneration plans. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of the Whitgift and Centrale shopping centres, hopes to revitalise the area with retail, housing...
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There goes the (low traffic) neighbourhood
THE High Court has quashed six permanent Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) schemes in Croydon after a judge ruled they were unlawfully introduced to help plug the borough’s dire finances. The long-running case was in part decided by public statements...
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TIME FOR AN UPGRADE...
CROYDON Council has announced plans to spend £1.5 million from the Government’s Pride in Place Programme to upgrade high streets, parks and community spaces across the borough. The largest share will go to Wandle Park, one of Croydon’s most central...
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THAT SINKING FEELING... NORWOOD CHURCH SUFFERING FROM SUBSIDENCE
A 19TH century church in Croydon has been ‘sinking and expanding’ for decades due to climate change. St John The Evangelist, in Upper Norwood, stands upon a hill but it is this location that has been the cause of the issues. Standing tall above Upper...
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TAXED TO THE MAX 4.99% COUNCIL TAX HIKE IS JUSTIFIED BY NEED TO SERVICE HISTORIC DEBT
CROYDON residents are set for another 4.99 per cent rise in council tax this April, as the council continues to service its £1.4 billion debt burden while grappling with the “soaring demand” for local services. The hike comes despite a historic cash...
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Taylor Swift begins her ‘Croydon era’
TAYLOR Swift has officially entered her ‘Croydon era’ after filming a star-studded music video in the Whitgift Shopping Centre. After the release of her new six-minute video for Opalite last Friday night (February 6), Swifties soon noticed there had...
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Teacher Bhishma offers to teach the Princess Royal how to rap
THE Princess Royal was offered the chance to learn how to rap as a Croydon teacher who is using lyrics to help “prevent social tragedies” was made an MBE. The offer came from Bhishma Asare, 34, who formed Rap Therapy as a way to teach young people to...
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Children invited to Send sport festival
CROYDON Council and Access Sport will host its annual festival of sport for disabled children and young people at New Addington Leisure Centre on Thursday, February 19. The free event will offer taster sessions for people aged five to 25 in a variety...
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Residents invited to Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
CROYDON’S Civic Mayor has invited residents and colleagues to join him at the Annual Holocaust Memorial Ceremony. The remembrance event will be held in the Council Chamber, Croydon Town Hall, Katharine Street, on Tuesday, January 27 at midday, with an...
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Lowest level of homicides in capital for 11 years say Met Police
THE number of homicides recorded in London has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade, new figures show. There were 97 homicides in the capital in 2025, down 11 per cent from 109 in 2024, according to data released by the Metropolitan...
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The shape of things to come for Croydon
CLEARER signage, greener streets and refreshed public spaces are set to appear across parts of Croydon next year, as Government-funded high street regeneration schemes get under way. The plans are being shaped by local communities, with residents...
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A fairer share for Croydon
AFTER years of arguing Croydon was not receiving its fair share, the borough is now set for a major funding boost that could help support local services. Changes approved on December 17 mean the South London council stands to gain around £40 million a...
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Parking fines ‘driving away customers’
“WHEN I’m working now, customers say ‘Can you hurry up? I don’t want to get a ticket’,” said Osman Mohammed of Fresh N Fruity. He can no longer keep an eye on the popular parking spot on Croydon’s Frith Road because of a new partition blocking his...
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Pothole damage payments cost council £97k
CRUMBLING roads and pavements have cost Croydon Council nearly £100,000 in compensation since January 2022, new data has revealed. The figures also highlight a footway in a residential road in central Croydon as the borough’s most severely affected...
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OPENING OF CROSSING COMPLETES TOWN’S ‘MISSING LINK’
THE new Wellesley Road crossing opened last week (Wednesday, December 3), with Mayor Jason Perry calling it the “final missing link” in reconnecting a road that has “split the town in half for years”. Speaking to the Local Democracy Reporting Service...
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